Slush bucket. A foul feeder, one that eats much greasy food.
Sly boots. A cunning fellow, under the mask of simplicity.
SMABBLED, or SNABBLED. Killed in battle.
To smack. To kiss. I had a smack
at her muns: I kissed
her mouth. To smack calves skin;
to kiss the book, i.e.
to take an oath. The queer cuffin
bid me smack calves
skin, but I only bussed my thumb; the
justice bid me
kiss the book, but I only kissed my thumb.
SMACKSMOOTH. Level with the surface, every thing cut away.
Smacking cove. A coachman.
Small clothes. Breeches: a gird
at the affected delicacy
of the present age; a suit being called
coat, waistcoat,
and articles, or small clothes.
Smart. Spruce, fine: as smart as a carrot new scraped.
Smart money. Money allowed to soldiers
or sailors for
the loss of a limb, or other hurt received
in the service.
Smasher. A person who lives by passing base
coin. The
cove was fined in the steel for smashing;
the fellow was
ordered to be imprisoned in the house
of correction for
uttering base coin.
Smash. Leg of mutton and smash: a leg
of mutton and
mashed turnips. Sea term.
To smash. To break; also to kick down
stairs. Cant.
To smash. To pass counterfeit money.
Smear. A plasterer.
Smear gelt. A bribe. German.
Smeller. A nose. Smellers: a cat’s whiskers.
Smelling cheat. An orchard, or garden;
also a nosegay.
Cant.
Smelts. Half guineas. Cant.
SMICKET. A smock, or woman’s shift.
Smirk. A finical spruce fellow. To
smirk; to smile, or
look pleasantly.
Smiter. An arm. To smite one’s
tutor; to get money
from him. Academic term.
Smithfield bargain. A bargain whereby
the purchaser
is taken in. This is likewise frequently
used to express
matches or marriages contracted solely
on the score of
interest, on one or both sides, where
the fair sex are bought
and sold like cattle in Smithfield.
Smock-faced. Fair faced.
To smoke. To observe, to suspect.
Smoker. A tobacconist.
Smoky. Curious, suspicious, inquisitive.
SMOUCH. Dried leaves of the ash tree, used by
the smugglers
for adulterating the black or bohea teas.
SMOUS. A German Jew.
Smug. A nick name for a blacksmith; also neat and spruce.
Smug lay. Persons who pretend to be
smugglers of lace
and valuable articles; these men borrow
money of
publicans by depositing these goods in
their hands; they
shortly decamp, and the publican discovers
too late that he has
been duped; and on opening the pretended
treasure, he
finds trifling articles of no value.


